Question follow-through · 62793
Cervical Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on the steps it plans to take to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of self-sampling for cervical screening compared with clinician-taken samples.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on the steps it plans to take to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of self-sampling for cervical screening compared with clinician-taken samples.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Department is guided on screening policy by the UK National Screening Committee. The committee is working with National Institute for Health and Care Research and NHS England to develop an In Service Evaluation that will evaluate the clinical effectiv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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